The Baron Book prize for 2011 was awarded to:
Pawel Maciejko of Hebrew University
for The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816(University of Pennsylvania Press).

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The Academy represents the oldest organization of Judaic scholars in North America. Fellows are nominated and elected by their peers and thus constitute the most distinguished and most senior scholars teaching Judaic studies at American universities.
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